alokm

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by alokm 7y ago
The cross icon is not flat, and the padding for text is not sufficient.
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by alokm 7y ago
Your photos are good. Getting instagram followers in itself is a separate set of skills than being a good photographer. There is no scope of "organic" growth when the platform is swamped with people trying out different tricks.
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by alokm 8y ago
The list is very long. I really wish a rebranding or renaming or merging of services was somehow listed or displayed separately. This would give a better idea of the services actually killed.
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Economics: The new astrology(aeon.co)
3 points by alokm 10y ago|0 comments
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by alokm 12y ago
Getting a 403 on your site.
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by alokm 12y ago
Most of my revenue is from an app called Hindu Calendar. It has loads of features now relating to traditional Indian calendar, and festivals of India. [Edit]: See https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Al
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by alokm 12y ago
Yes i added ads initially. But I always made sure they did not compromise with user experience. The ad revenue was not significant initially. It has grown steadily over couple of years as the user base has increased.
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by alokm 12y ago
Monthly ~4-5k USD from Adsense through my Android Apps, and couple of hundred from in app sales for removing ads. I made my apps just to learn about Android initially. I did not know it would be a big hit. So, I just kept on adding feature
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by alokm 12y ago
I don't think it is right to jump to conclusions based on those images. I have been to one of the clean rooms, where the satellite ASTROSAT was being created. We were in the outer most room. And for that too we had to wear these bunny
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by alokm 12y ago
I see apps trying to overcome this trust deficit by using phrases like. "We wont post anything on your feed" . "No posts. We promise". Even if it isn't a legal commitment, It might go a long way in convincing users.
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Spell Up with Google(spellup.withgoogle.com)
2 points by alokm 12y ago|1 comments
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by alokm 12y ago
I have had the fortune of working on this IIT right after my IIT :). I worked on implementing the research software used by Giulio Tononi and his research team. I added a visualizer in OpenGL, and optimized the calculations for calculating
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by alokm 12y ago
I rely on it heavily. I have my home folder backed up and synced across machines on Ubuntu One. But I am using the free tier < 5GB. I will have to move on to other alternatives. I guess it wouldn't have been sustainable for them, s
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by alokm 13y ago
One very interesting thing about this game was its size. I was pleasantly surprised to see a game less than 1 MB.
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by alokm 13y ago
There is a custom URL feature for plus accounts. Eg. https://google.com/+YourFullName . I guess, they are reserving the urls for unique names. I got mine https://google.com/+AlokMandavgane
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by alokm 13y ago
This foot-in-the-door techniques and many other things have been covered beautifully in an ongoing course https://www.coursera.org/course/socialpsychology . It is about to be over. I do recommend going through the video
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by alokm 13y ago
I concur as a Android Developer. I have kept a mile away from these sort of ad providers. I will not put in ads that I as a user will not like.
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by alokm 13y ago
Man-Made or not, At least they have existed. That should be enough to add it to periodic table. There is always a non zero probability that they might exist somewhere else in the universe.
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by alokm 13y ago
But it was only for the 48 hour period of the portathon. And IIRC their total budget was only 2,000,000.
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by alokm 13y ago
I was involved in a Blackberry portathon. They were offering USD 100 for each of the approved apps submitted at that time. This incentive surely didn't help. I remember participants there, raising concerns about 20-30 different apps by
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by alokm 13y ago
That would have suggested dominance of bureaucracy in Google. Guidelines suggesting projects to be put on Google Code, etc. This seems more decentralized.
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by alokm 13y ago
I think the example he took of moving sites from Linode to EC2 is one of the better things he can do while avoiding working on his product. As he claimed he did learn something, adding value to his skills. But yeah, I get the point. There a
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by alokm 13y ago
Are there any existing reliable alternatives?
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by alokm 13y ago
This coincidentally is also the Final Assignment of the Coursera course by Stanford "Startup Engineering". Every one there would be making a Node based, AWS powered, Bootstrap themed Crowdfunding site.
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by alokm 13y ago
I also concur that "consciousness is an emergent physical property of massively interconnected systems". But "all matter has some degree of internal conscious experience" is really a philosophical question. Internet can
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by alokm 13y ago
I didn't mean that brain made up of silicon cannot be conscious. We are trying to simulate whatever we have learned about the brain. And that understanding is not complete. So implementing that in silicon (circuit) will not be consciou
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by alokm 13y ago
Its not a petri dish he is referring to. He is talking about a brain implemented in silicon or graphene, i.e, a brain simulated on electronic hardware.
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by alokm 13y ago
Consciousness is not solely a matter of computation. Even if we are able to simulate the brains of lesser beings, doesnt necessarily mean that there will be self awareness in the simulation. I think this is one area where we still have a lo
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by alokm 13y ago
These lists can be very locale insensitive. A few years back my friend was trying to get a Gmail id with his name. To his surprise he wasnt able to get any id, no matter how long and obscure suffix he tried. Then it hit me that it was becau
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by alokm 14y ago
The claimed proof doesnt directly help us in factoring primes. At least not now. It has more to do with "structure" of primes.

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